Re: [pysieved] Authentication problem

[Matthias Berndt <matthias_berndt at gmx dot de>]

Hello Neale, 

thank you for your response. I'm glad to hear that proper logging is in 
the works. 
> This is an interesting situation.  I don't know how the PAM kerberos
> module works but I'm not surprised to hear that it's goofy with 
> pysieved: the pam authentication module was only designed for simple
> challenge/response, and I'd be shocked if it worked for more
> complicated things like GSSAPI or biometric scans.
My dovecot server is configured to offer PLAIN authentication as well. The 
fact that it ultimately uses the same kerberos database as well shouldn't 
matter, because pam_krb5.so should sort that out (after all, that's the 
whole point in PAM: abstracting the way that authentication happens). 
Also, there is no indication that the authentication process fails, it 
just tells me that my password isn't valid - unlike when I tried GSSAPI, 
where I immediately got a message saying that the mechanism is not 
supported. 

Regards
Matthias Berndt